NGC 7027 Planetary Nebula Spectrum - Astronomy and astrophotography CCD camera images



17/08/2005
Object name: NGC7027 CS=11.3
Popular name: CS=11.3
Object type: Planetary Nebula
Magnitude: 10.4
Size: 0.92 0
Position angle: 0
Classification: PN
Apparent RA: 21 07 01.7 Apparent Dec: +42 14 12
Constellation: Cygnus

This classic planetary nebula shows a bright emission Hydrogen Alpha and a very bright line for Oxygen III. Some of the fainter hydrogen lines are also sort-of visible

Captured in k3ccdtools, stack in registax, cropped and rotated in photoshop, converted in IRIS and analysed in vSpec.

Grating used was a 100 lines/mm "Star Analyser"


Exposure Details :

16x10s on 200mm @ F5 with SC3.5

Curdridge Observatory, Southampton,UK